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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877499003321

Autore

Kay Jerald

Titolo

Essentials of psychiatry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley, 2006

ISBN

0-470-03099-2

0-470-03098-4

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Psychiatry

Mental Disorders

Methods

Psychotherapy

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Investigative Techniques

Medicine

Behavioral Sciences

Health Occupations

Psychiatry - General

Health & Biological Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Listening to the patient -- The cultural context of clinical assessment -- The psychiatric interview : settings and techniques -- Physician-patient relationship -- Professional ethics and boundaries -- Law, ethics and psychiatry -- A psychiatric perspective on human development -- Psychopathology across the life-cycle -- Psychiatric epidemiology -- Psychiatric pathophysiology : schizophrenia -- Psychiatric pathophysiology : mood disorders -- Psychiatric pathophysiology : anxiety disorders -- Psychiatric pathophysiology : addiction -- Psychiatric pathophysiology : dementia -- Cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology --

Cognitive psychology : basic theory and clinical implications -- Social psychology -- Psychoanalytic theories -- Clinical evaluation and



treatment planning: a multimodal approach -- Behavior and adaptive functioning -- Cultural aspects of psychiatric disorders -- Psychiatric classification -- Diagnostic classification in infancy and early childhood -- Childhood disorders : mental retardation -- Childhood disorders : learning and motor skills disorders -- Childhood disorders : communication disorders -- Childhood disorders : the autism spectrum disorders -- Childhood disorders : attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders --

Childhood disorders : feeding and other disorders of infancy or early childhood -- Childhood disorders : tic disorders -- Childhood disorders : elimination disorders and childhood anxiety disorders -- Delirium and dementia -- Mental disorders due to a general medical condition -- General approaches to substance and polydrug use disorders -- Substance abuse : alcohol use disorders -- Substance abuse : caffeine use disorders -- Substance abuse : cannabis-related disorders -- Substance abuse : cocaine use disorders -- Substance abuse : phencyclidine use disorders -- Substance abuse : hallucinogen- and MDMA-related disorders --

Substance abuse : inhalant-related disorders -- Substance abuse : nicotine dependence -- Substance abuse : opioid use disorders -- Substance abuse : sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic use disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychoses -- Mood disorders : depression -- Mood disorders : bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders -- Mood disorders : premenstrual dysphoric disorder -- Anxiety disorders : panic disorder with and without agoraphobia -- Anxiety disorders : social and specific phobias -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Anxiety disorders : traumatic stress disorders -- Anxiety disorders : generalized anxiety disorder --

Somatoform disorders -- Factitious disorders -- Dissociative disorders -- Sexual disorders -- Eating disorders -- Sleep and sleep-wake disorders -- Impulse control disorders -- Adjustment disorders -- Personality disorders -- Psychological factors affecting medical condition -- Medication-induced movement disorders -- Relational problems -- Individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy -- Group psychotherapy -- Time-limited psychotherapy(including interpersonal therapy) -- Cognitive and behavioral therapies -- Family therapy -- Couples therapy -- Hypnosis -- Psychosocial rehabilitation -- Electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and vagal nerve stimulation --

Neurosurgery for treatment-refractory psychiatric disorders : obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder -- Ethnic and cultural perspectives in psychopharmacology -- Antipsychotic drugs -- Mood stabilizers -- Antidepressants -- Anxiolytic drugs -- Sedative-hypnotic agents -- Stimulants and related compounds -- Cognitive enhancers and treatments for Alzheimer's disease -- Pharmacotherapies for substance abuse -- Therapeutic management of the suicidal patient -- Treatment of violent behavior -- Combined therapies : psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy -- Medication compliance.